The article analyzes the migration and socio cultural changes taking place under their influence in European countries, migrants relationships with the local population; examines the problem of the recognition of the “different” as a necessary condition for the existence of emigrants and emigrant groups in a multicultural society; It studies the features of adaptation and emigrants identifying, the impact of global migration processes on the tolerance of the local population with respect to migrants and Muslim immigrant communities, as well as (...) the integration policy pursued by the governments of the EU member countries on the immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. (shrink)